In pictures: Cleaning Freetown


No pay

Plastic bags, old tin cans, withered clothes, leaves and whole branches sit in piles, waiting to be loaded onto dustbin lorries.

"I don't like dirt – I like to see the environment get good," says Osman Kabbah, as he cleans out a gutter.

"I get no pay. I do it because I like my country. I want to improve it."

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